President Obama and open government

One of the biggest criticisms of President George W. Bush and his administration is how they seemed to like governing in secret. It is no secret, pun fully intended, that the Bush administration was not the most open administration our country has seen. I won’t bore you with the specifics, but the exemptions to the [...]

Public perception of the automotive bailout – one year later

Please vote in the poll at the end of this article.
Has it really been over a year since the first emergency loans were provided to General Motors and Chrysler? In fact, it was a year on December 19, 2009. It was then that President George W. Bush and his administration decided to give both automakers [...]

Public-financed campaigns

Is there anyone here who hasn’t felt overwhelmed by the amount of money spent on political campaigns? I don’t know about you, but I have bemoaned for years, the fact that it seems to take so much money to even think about being competitive in a national election. It doesn’t matter if we are talking [...]

President Obama wants new taxes on banks

Let’s see now, what is that old saying? Something about honesty being good for the soul. If that’s the case, then my soul should be in pretty good shape after this post. That is unless the mixed feelings get in the way because my feelings about new taxes are very mixed.
First of all, I have [...]

President Obama and the response to Flight 253

Much has been said and written in the past few days, concerning the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit and his defense lawyers are scrambling to present the proper defense. With so much evidence against [...]

Coming soon, more stimulus spending from Congress

MORE SPENDING=ECONOMIC STIMULUS=JOBS CREATION
I sometimes wonder if the equation above actually does what the big spenders want us to believe. Since sometime in 2008, we have seen an unprecedented amount of money spent on stimulating our economy. It started under George W. Bush and it has only gotten bigger and more expensive since Barack Obama [...]

Is the recession really over?

It was a question that was asked at least twice on the Sunday talk shows this past weekend. Depending on who you were talking to, you could have received a couple of different answers. Larry Summers, who is the top economic adviser to the White House was asked that question on ABC’s This Week and [...]

President Obama and his bow to the Japanese

Well, here I go again, treading waters where I probably have no business swimming in. I was very
busy over the weekend with computer problems and was unable to keep up with the news. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that one of the top stories was how President Barack Obama mismanaged his meeting with Japanese [...]

Bailed-out companies to receive pay cut orders

Here is a formula for you. Take greed and bad business practices in equal parts and mix it with companies who were deemed “to big to fail”. Once stirred together, combine the resulting mix with $700 billion in bailout money. After baking for several months, what do we get? Let’s see now, we have seven [...]

To kill or not to kill, that is the question for Iraq

A lot of people, myself included have questioned George W. Bush about the war in Iraq. I have always liked the man, but that didn’t keep me from questioning the validity of sending our troops into the country and removing Saddam Hussein from power. Not that I was a great fan of Hussein, but I [...]

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